I second your point, it's about running to strategies in parallel: release every six months for early adopters, but limit mainstream efforts to every to years.

I second your point, it's about running to strategies in parallel: release every six months for early adopters, but limit mainstream efforts to every to years. Which would make a lot of sense IMHO. From what I can tell, mainstream users don't care about having the latest software, they just want it to work. I've helped people migrate to Ubuntu who were still using Win98... I wish they kept the applications more up to date in the LTS version though, I keep adding new sources and installing .debs to get newer versions, for instance of OpenOffice, LifeRea or Pidgin.